--- title: World's Most Beautiful Starbucks Cups description: Artist and barista Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte spends some 40 hours creating each one canonical: https://time.com/107244/hand-drawn-starbucks-cups/ author: Matt Vella article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-21T11:23:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:22.161Z article:section: World og:title: World's Most Beautiful Starbucks Cups og:description: Artist and barista Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte spends some 40 hours creating each one og:url: https://time.com/107244/hand-drawn-starbucks-cups/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c044029f345c2a3/6986905206f2c11c3032efda/blr_qjdieaai0t5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: World's Most Beautiful Starbucks Cups twitter:description: Artist and barista Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte spends some 40 hours creating each one twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c044029f345c2a3/6986905206f2c11c3032efda/blr_qjdieaai0t5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Are the Most Beautiful, Hand-Drawn Starbucks Cups You'll Ever See by [Matt Vella](/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella May 21, 2014 11:23 AM CUT  Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte by [Matt Vella](/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella May 21, 2014 11:23 AM CUT Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte is an artist and barista who works at the Starbucks across from the British Museum in London. He takes the chain’s “name on a cup” policy to the extreme with custom, hand-drawn line art. Some are so intricate they take as long at 40 hours to complete. Starbucks [tells Metro U.K.](http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/08/starbucks-employee-gives-away-creative-cup-art-to-lucky-customers-4721372/ "undefined") “it’s fantastic how he takes our iconic cup design and makes it his own.” Here are some favorites; there’s [full gallery on his Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gs-Art/111654865586456?id=111654865586456&sk=photos%5Fstream "undefined").  Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte  Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte  Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte  Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte \[[Metro U.K.](http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/08/starbucks-employee-gives-away-creative-cup-art-to-lucky-customers-4721372/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/107244/hand-drawn-starbucks-cups/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/107244/hand-drawn-starbucks-cups/"},"headline":"These Are the Most Beautiful, Hand-Drawn Starbucks Cups You'll Ever See","datePublished":"2014-05-21T11:23:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:22.161Z","description":"Artist and barista Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte spends some 40 hours creating each one","url":"https://time.com/107244/hand-drawn-starbucks-cups/","keywords":["Starbucks","Art","Coffee","Design"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c044029f345c2a3/6986905206f2c11c3032efda/blr_qjdieaai0t5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Vella","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c044029f345c2a3/6986905206f2c11c3032efda/blr_qjdieaai0t5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte","caption":"","creditText":"Gabriel Nkweti Lafitte","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/starbucks/","name":"Starbucks"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/107244/hand-drawn-starbucks-cups/","name":"These Are the Most Beautiful, Hand-Drawn Starbucks Cups You'll Ever See"}}]}] ```